This was a beauty of an AFL grand final, punctuated by constant high drama and a succession of highlights.But in the end, the Western Bulldogs drought-breaking premiership win came down to something much more matter-of-fact.The Bulldogs had more players contributing than Sydney did.It was, put simply, a better team effort.An AFL maxim holds that the top six players in a team dont win the flag - the bottom six do.Asked what went wrong, Swans coach John Longmire zeroed in on it.We think we probably needed to work a little bit harder, a little more consistently over the four quarters, Longmire said.We werent quite up to the workrate we normally get from our group and probably the Bulldogs consistency over their 22 versus ours - we probably didnt have as many contributors on the day.Minutes later, Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge was also asked how they had prevailed in such a tight contest.In the end we again had the even contribution of the 22 and in big games like this, you have to have that, he said.Bulldogs players such as Caleb Daniel and Jake Stringer had quiet days, but they contributed.Daniel finished strongly after not managing an effective kick or handball in the first term. Stringer kicked a crucial last-quarter goal.Key defender Joel Hamling played the game of his life, winning some massive one-on-one duels with Swans star Lance Franklin.At the other end of the ground, high-profile recruit Tom Boyd picked the perfect day to show exactly why the Bulldogs spent so much money to bring him to Whitten Oval.He took six contested marks and kicked three goals in a command performance.Today, when we needed our players to find their very-best performance, he found his in a grand final, Beveridge said.Beveridge also heaped praise on his assistant coaches, particularly former Geelong stars Joel Corey and Steven King.They were in charge of the midfield and at halftime, they had to come up with something.Swans star Josh Kennedy was clearly best afield at that stage with 22 possessions.Beveridge said the tinkering that Corey and King did with their midfielders made a huge difference.Kennedy was still Sydneys best at the end, but his influence on the game notably lessened in the third term especially as the Bulldogs steadily took control.Of course, another key factor was the free-kick count - a whopping 20-8 in the Bulldogs favour.It left the Swans seething and Longmire could only laugh ruefully when asked about it post-match.But ultimately, the game was still there for Sydney to win. 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The International Olympic Committee stopped short of supporting such a move, but it didnt rule it out, either.First, the IOC said, it will carefully evaluate the report issued on Monday by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, who listed 20 summer sports as being part of systematic cheating in Russia and confirmed the manipulation of Russian doping samples at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.The IOC will explore the legal options with regard to a collective ban of all Russian athletes for the Olympic Games 2016 versus the right to individual justice, the 15-member ruling executive board said in a statement following a meeting by teleconference.The IOC noted that it will have to take into account a decision coming on Thursday from the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which will rule on Russias appeal against the ban on its track and field athletes from Rio. That ban was imposed in November by the IAAF and upheld last month.Meanwhile, the IOC said it has started disciplinary action against Russian sports ministry officials and others implicated in McLarens report, including denial of accreditation for the Rio Games.The IOC also:said it will not organize or give patronage to any sports event or meetings in Russia, including plans to hold the European Games in the country in 2019.will launch retesting, including forensic analysis, of doping samples from the Sochi Games. Moscows former doping lab director, Grigory Rodchenkov, said dirty samples of Russian athletes -- including gold medalists -- were swapped out in the middle of the night for clean samples, with the help of Russian intelligence service officials.set up a commission to carry out a full inquiry into all of the Russian athletes who competed in Sochi, along with their coaches, officiaals and support staff.ddddddddddddasked WADA to extend McLarens mandate to disclose the names of Russian athletes whose positive doping samples were covered up, and whose samples were manipulated in Sochi.called on all international winter sports federations to freeze their plans for holding major events in Russia, including world championships and World Cups, and to seek alternative venues in other countries.The IOC said the provisional measures would apply until Dec. 31 and be reviewed by the IOC that month.Earlier Tuesday, summer Olympic sports federations made clear they do not support a blanket ban on Russia for Rio and would prefer that doping was handled on an individual basis.The Association of Summer Olympic International Federation asked WADA to immediately provide all the detailed information to the 20 international federations concerned so that they may begin processing the individual cases under their own separate rules and regulations as soon as possible, and in line with the WADA Code and the Olympic Charter.It is important to focus on the need for individual justice in all these cases.The association said it endorses all federation decisions, including those that take into account collective responsibility of organizations under the IFs governance.That means that rather than applying a total ban, federations could suspend individual Russian sports. Thats already the case with the IAAF, which barred Russias track athletes from the games following previous WADA-commissioned reports into Russian doping.The summer associations position falls in line with recent comments by IOC President Thomas Bach, who has cited the need to strike a balance between individual justice and collective punishment. He said last week that, if summer sports were implicated in the McLaren report, the international federations would have to decide on the eligibility of Russian athletes on an individual basis.McLarens report uncovered a state-run doping scheme that ensnared 28 sports, both summer and winter, and ran from 2011 to 2015.The investigation told of 312 positive tests that Russias deputy minister of sport directed lab workers not to report to WADA. Russias intelligence service, the FSB, was also involved, the report said. ' ' '